Example sentences of "be up [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ Well , they 're up the creek . ’ |
2 | ‘ I think we 're up the creek . ’ |
3 | ‘ We 're up the creek because we do n't know where to go from here . ’ |
4 | ‘ We 're up the dale a bit . |
5 | HEAVEN is my witness that I do not want to be unfair to British Telecom , so I must , with frank and honest gaze , report that I have had several letters saying that I am up the pole in carrying on about the method of charging recently mentioned in this column . |
6 | They are also thinking too much about what counts and when you do that you are up the creek , and at the moment Gloucester have not got a paddle |
7 | I always say it will be done in a fortnight ; this gives me more leeway if things go wrong and if I get the garment finished before the two weeks are up the person is usually delighted . |
8 | He must have been up a tree . |
9 | I was up going on the ski slope , and this is like , I 've been up a couple of times before , but it had been really cold and bi and I went at Easter , I was so like hot , but it 's still really good snow , and we went up there and I just could n't believe it , I just went dad , erm , oh , I do n't feel too good , and he just went , do n't be so stupid , and Nathan and I collapsed , I was at the front of this queue waiting for the ski lift and the whole queue just went |
10 | Having been up a ladder , only I could see how easy it is , you could fall off a ladder as simply as anything . |
11 | But erm it 's quite hard if you 've been up a lot at night and then you have to go and do the whole of the next day of work , but fortunately our rotas are n't too bad so we 're never on two nights in a row compared with the hospital which was quite a lot harder work . |
12 | ‘ Luci Hayter looked as if she 'd been up every night for a week . |
13 | ‘ I just been up the school , ’ answered Nelly , undoing her coat . |
14 | MARRIAGES which involve a partner who has been married before are more likely to end in the divorce courts than ones between two people who have never before been up the aisle . |
15 | ‘ So you 've been up the barrow , ’ Jos said out of the blue , as he lined up on the final double . |
16 | You can always tell when the clippers have been up the back of the neck . |
17 | Have you not been up the ramp before ? |
18 | He will have learnt from Iacocca , pursued excellence , been up the organization and spent one minute as a manager . |
19 | No and what 's happened is , he 's been up the bank and er the thing has |
20 | very pretty and er , it looks as if she ought to have been up the disco having a dance , any way |
21 | I 've not been up the garden at the back but those on the front are . |
22 | I 've been up the bath . |
23 | No , no there 's not I mean I 've been doing this for fifteen years , and quite simply is , if you like , I 've been up the ladder , the contacts that were I 've had were relatively junior fifteen years ago |
24 | It 's just been up the woman 's puss ! |
25 | Been up the library . |
26 | after we 've been up the club |
27 | Peering through the cobwebs at the stable clock , Umberto realized he should have been up an hour ago . |
28 | As much as she loved Lizzy , and as much as she wanted to help her , without her job they would all be up a creek without a paddle . |
29 | Both Thins and Bargain Bookshops expected to be up a bit ahead of inflation , which was not good enough for David Flatman but ‘ a near miss ’ for Ainslie Thin . |
30 | Well , the market will probably be up a year from now , and if he holds shares in all the ex-state companies ( 36 , less two taken over ) his risks are tolerably spread , with worthy water companies balancing clouded bits of aerospace . |